Question

I have a nav bar being applied to my site with the following code:

<!-- catalog.xml -->
<default>
    <reference name="left">
        <block type="catalog/navigation" name="catalog.leftnav" template="catalog/navigation/left.phtml"/>
    </reference>
</default>

But I do not want it to appear on the account pages. I tried the following, but it doesn’t work.

<!-- customer.xml -->
<default>
    <reference name="left">
        <action method="unsetChild"><name>catalog.leftnav</name></action>
    </reference>
</default>

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Apply <remove name="catalog.leftnav"/> in your customer.xml.that will remove the block.

<!-- customer.xml -->
<default>
    <reference name="left">
             <remove name="catalog.leftnav"/>
     </reference>
</default>

Edit :-

Only want to remove it from account pages
for this you need to remove it from <customer_account>

 <customer_account translate="label">
         <reference name="left">
                 <remove name="catalog.leftnav"/>
         </reference>
  </customer_account>